Planning on playing in Ireland, any suggestions?

[Shinkuro Yukinari]

I just love playing underdogs and making them great. I managed to restore Jerusalem as Provence on Christmas Eve, now I wanna try an Irish minor and possibly colonise.
Who do you suggest me to play?
How to play that nation?
Does that Island near America still allow you to not have Colonial Nations if you transfer to it?

Imagine opening the culture map mode and seeing a massive IRISH over the Americas

 

[Viktor Vaughn]

Of the Irish nations, only Desmond, Thomond, and Sligo have unique ideas. All other Irish nations have the generic Irish idea group. The "flee to the new world" strategy should work just fine, assuming you do it correctly. If that's the route you're going, Thomond is the only nation that has a colonising idea (+15 global settler increase, as their 7th), and has some decent ones elsewhere (land force limit modifier, tax modifier, production modifier) so that would be a good choice. Sligo doesn't really work for New World I don't think, Desmond would work ok but it does better when it's trying to outgrow England. Irish ideas are somewhat boring. So I'd suggest Thomond.

 

[Shinkuro Yukinari]

Of the Irish nations, only Desmond, Thomond, and Sligo have unique ideas. All other Irish nations have the generic Irish idea group. The "flee to the new world" strategy should work just fine, assuming you do it correctly. If that's the route you're going, Thomond is the only nation that has a colonising idea (+15 global settler increase, as their 7th), and has some decent ones elsewhere (land force limit modifier, tax modifier, production modifier) so that would be a good choice. Sligo doesn't really work for New World I don't think, Desmond would work ok but it does better when it's trying to outgrow England. Irish ideas are somewhat boring. So I'd suggest Thomond.

It will take a while to get that Settler increase, damn.
My idea is not really to escape, just to ensure that colonial nations won't spawn since I probably won't be strong enough to keep them in check. I remember in like 1.18 I tried Desmond, colonized Cuba and poof, 30% Liberty desire right off the bat!

I'll consider Desmond and Thomond, since I still wanna form Ireland(doubt I'll manage to form UK)

 

[Dominion]

Take control over the British Isles, then start colonizing. No exile strategy needed.

 

[Bouchart]

Bermuda and the two provinces in Greenland are considered part of North America but not part of any colonial nation.

A lot will depend on how effective England is. If they conquer Scotland quickly it'll be hard to stand up to them. In Ireland you are too far from most of Europe to get strong allies a lot of the time. Except France, who is always fighting with England and will likely drag you into wars. If you can't make inroads consider moving your capital to the new world and your main trading port to the Caribbean.

 

[makaramus]

dont?
if you do then conquer england
yea I came to do some bad jokes here because I never did it

 

[Blust]

Kildare has the best dynasty and is in the middle of Ireland (= no port but free CB)

 

[True_Heir_of_Rome]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...k-of-the-irish-development-1-18-guide.967214/

This should still work.

 

[Viktor Vaughn]

Take control over the British Isles, then start colonizing. No exile strategy needed.

yeah the better play (at least short term) is focus on britain and then colonise, but if you don't want to deal with colonial nations and want all of america for yourself, exile is the only way to do that.